Texas and Region

Posted: April 1, 2012 - 12:23am

Texas & Region

DALLAS

Police say a man died after struggling with officers.

Officers were working off-duty at an apartment complex early Saturday when they said they saw a 44-year-old man acting erratically in the courtyard. When they attempted to speak with him, he was unresponsive, and they called for additional officers.

A release said that when the officers engaged the man, a struggle ensued. After being handcuffed, the man stopped breathing. He was transported to Baylor Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

GARLAND

Three men with faces covered shot the owner of a gas station and got away with cash from the register.

Garland police said the 41-year-old station owner was transported to Baylor Hospital in Dallas. His wound was not considered life-threatening

Police responded to a robbery call at the Shell station just before 9:45 p.m. Friday. Witnesses said the three men entered the station with their faces covered and demanded money. The owner, who was behind the counter, turned away, and one of the men shot him. The robber turned the gun toward a female behind the counter, who handed over cash from the register. The men headed into a nearby wooded area.

LEXINGTON, Ky.

Three inmates who escaped from Blackburn Correctional Complex in Lexington are back in custody after two were caught in Texas and the third turned himself in to police.

Kentucky correctional officials told the Lexington Herald-Leader that 41-year-old Anthony Kendrick and 31-year-old Jerry Nation, who both walked away from the prison in October, were arrested in separate locations in Texas on Friday.

Jerod Mikel, who walked away from the prison a week ago, turned himself in to Lexington police Thursday. Mikel was serving a seven-year sentence for trafficking in a controlled substance in Pulaski County.

Kendrick was serving an eight-year sentence for second-degree complicity to robbery out of McCracken County.

Nation was serving a 10-year sentence on convictions from Anderson and Oldham counties for burglary and theft by unlawful taking.

GALVESTON

U.S. marshals briefly seized a cruise ship in Texas as part of a $10 million lawsuit related to the fatal Italian cruise ship wreck.

The Carnival Cruise Lines ship was seized for several hours Saturday while docked in Galveston, where it was scheduled to leave with 2,700 passengers. Attorneys later reached a deal releasing the ship.

A Texas judge had ordered the seizure to secure the plaintiff’s claims against Carnival Corp., the Miami-based parent of the Italian cruise line whose ship crashed in January. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a German citizen who died in the wreck.